Another murder committed blatantly; another act whose purpose will always remain doubtful in the minds of the public; another attack that will raise questions about who benefited from it and why it was undertaken.

On Friday the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) carried out a terrorist attack against the military outpost in Aktütün, located in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari, and 15 soldiers were killed in the fighting while 23 terrorists died.

When the Al-Jazeera English news channel asked me to speak in an interview about the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) attack on the Aktütün border station, I thought how could I explain to a foreigner who knows nothing about the conflict between the PKK and Turkey, how it is possible that a terror organization targets a military station four times in one year, kills soldiers in each attack but that there are still no attempts to prevent such attacks?

“We will call [the terrorists] to account for this attack!” “Everyone needs to condemn terrorism!” “Political strength and willpower are needed for an effective fight against terrorism,” “We will have vengeance,” etc.

We should not forget the fact that the security forces and the political authority should answer all questions — except for top-secret issues — that Turkish citizens, who finance the state’s public security services through the taxes they pay, ask about the security of the country.

ZAMAN “Fifth raid on Aktütün outpost: 15 soldiers became martyrs,” read the daily’s lead headline yesterday, referring to an attack carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Hakkari on Friday. The daily said Friday’s attack was the fifth since 1992 against the same military outpost.

We are at a point at which words are meaningless. This is not the first time the Aktütün outpost was attacked. Fifteen soldiers were ki
lled in Aktütün, which is located four kilometers from the Iraqi border and 40 kilometers from the Iranian border.

An attack by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists on the Aktütün outpost ended in the deaths of 15 soldiers. Another 20 were injured and two soldiers are missing, reminding all of the danger the terrorist organization poses as well as a few more points:

Another 15 soldiers are killed alongside a reported 23 of their Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attackers, and it doesn’t take much to understand that this was a wasteful slaughter. Yet how deeply do we empathize with the many tragedies we hear about on the news?

The killing of 15 Turkish soldiers by the terrorists of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at the Aktütün military outpost in the eastern province of Hakkari last Friday, the fifth most deadly PKK attack against the outpost since 1992, has raised the question of whether there was any negligence in the maintenance of security at the outpost on the part of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK).

It was as if it was only a matter of time. In the midst of the typical, boringly repetitious "neighborhood battle" which has kept the Turkish public busy with "he said, she said," the big blow was, as it were, creeping on the horizon.

Once again a massive attack of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an outlawed armed Kurdish militia, on a military outpost has shaken Turkey. The Aktütün border post of Şemdinli was attacked by several hundred armed men, who killed 15 soldiers, wounded a score of them and dragged away two.

Turkey is mourning the 15 soldiers who were killed in a horrendous attack perpetrated by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against Aktütün, a military outpost in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari on Friday.